Positive study on QOLassessment of outcome with green care in agriculture

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Agriculture can produce commodity outputs and also be a source of several non-commodity outputs that exhibit the characteristics of public good. The term green-care agriculture refers to this nexus between commodity and public good that care for people with disability in farming. The aim of this research is to certify the evidence of green care in agriculture. According to results of the statistical analysis on health-related quality of life score of autistic persons at green-care farm, we obtained on positive evidence that the health of persons with working more than 120 months improves significantly, compared with persons with working less than 120 months in the sphere of mental component summary score. The result suggest the evidence that green-care agriculture can produce a new public good.This outcome is a pioneering one of green care study.